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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — House Republicans are proposing a $124 million health care package for needy Virginians, including those with serious mental illness. Del. John O’Bannon of Henrico County announced the GOP alternative to Democratic…

WASHINGTON — Looking ahead after the State of the Union address, Virginians may be more optimistic about the future of the commonwealth than the future of the nation. A Roanoke College poll suggests 53 percent…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The owner of a Norfolk health care business has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison. The Virginian-Pilot reports (http://bit.ly/1KrUJsl) that 56-year-old W. Wayne Perry was sentenced Thursday…

District funding for local services is caught in the middle of the tug-of-war over the budget on Capitol Hill. And cash available to keep services running are dwindling without congressional intervention.

The youngest victims of the shutdown, children, will bear the brunt of a halt in Medicaid payments in D.C. Without the payments, children\’s access to routine medical care, vaccinations and other health services are threatened.

D.C. shelled out nearly $700,000 in Medicaid payments for dead people, part of nearly $4 million in erroneous payments made by the city’s Department of Health Care Finance in 2009, according to a new audit,…